Sinha focuses on the United States, though she is well aware of abolitionism’s transnational dimensions, and she takes us from the late 18th century through the Civil War and the eventual ...

Abolitionism Shows How One Person Can Help Spark a Movement. Story by Caleb Franz / Made by History • 10h. D ivision, crisis, and political violence are hardly new in the history of the United ...

From the early Quakers and black protest against slavery to the rise of the Anglo-American movement against the slave trade in the 18th century to the golden age of abolitionism in the years before ...

Abolitionism’s familiar figures are here: David Walker, whose thunderous 1829 appeal decried the moral wrongs of slavery, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips, but so ...

The History of Abolitionism Shows How One Person Can Help Spark a Movement 8 minute read A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905.